אַחַר
after
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Preposition 682 times (95%)
- Adverb 35 times (5%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 718 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 4 of 4 — showing verses 601–664 of 664 distinct verses where H310 appears, across 31 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah 52 verses
- Jeremiah 32:18 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם prep + sfx pers 3mp who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Hosts is his name;
- Jeremiah 32:39 אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
- Jeremiah 32:40 מֵ/אַ֣חֲרֵי/הֶ֔ם prep + prep + sfx pers 3mp and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
- Jeremiah 34:8 אַחֲרֵ֡י prep The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
- Jeremiah 34:11 אַחֲרֵי prep but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
- Jeremiah 35:15 אַחֲרֵ֨י prep I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return you now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
- Jeremiah 36:27 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
- Jeremiah 39:5 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֗ם prep + sfx pers 3mp But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.
- Jeremiah 40:1 אַחַ֣ר prep The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 41:16 אַחַ֣ר prep Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [to wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon:
- Jeremiah 42:16 אַחֲרֵי/כֶ֛ם prep + sfx pers 2mp then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.
- Jeremiah 46:26 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 48:2 אַחֲרַ֖יִ/ךְ prep + sfx pers 2fs The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.
- Jeremiah 49:6 וְ/אַחֲרֵי conj + prep But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 49:37 אַֽחֲרֵי/הֶם֙ prep + sfx pers 3mp I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;
- Jeremiah 50:21 אַֽחֲרֵי/הֶם֙ prep + sfx pers 3mp Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
- Jeremiah 51:46 וְ/אַחֲרָ֤י/ו conj + prep + sfx pers 3ms Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come] news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
- Jeremiah 52:8 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Ezekiel 25 verses
- Ezekiel 3:12 אַחֲרַ֔/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.
- Ezekiel 5:2 אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword round about it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 5:12 אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 6:9 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
- Ezekiel 9:5 אַחֲרָ֖י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you pity;
- Ezekiel 10:11 אַחֲרָ֣י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.
- Ezekiel 12:14 אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
- Ezekiel 13:3 אַחַ֥ר prep Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
- Ezekiel 14:7 מֵֽ/אַחֲרַ֗/י prep + prep + sfx pers 1cs For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:
- Ezekiel 14:11 מֵ/אַֽחֲרַ֔/י prep + prep + sfx pers 1cs that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 16:23 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh),
- Ezekiel 16:34 וְ/אַחֲרַ֖יִ/ךְ conj + prep + sfx pers 2fs You are different from [other] women in your prostitution, in that none follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.
- Ezekiel 20:16 אַחֲרֵ֥י prep because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
- Ezekiel 20:24 וְ/אַחֲרֵי֙ conj + prep because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
- Ezekiel 20:30 וְ/אַחֲרֵ֥י conj + prep Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play you the prostitute after their abominations?
- Ezekiel 20:39 וְ/אַחַ֕ר conj + adv As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go you, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name shall you no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.
- Ezekiel 23:30 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.
- Ezekiel 23:35 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitution.
- Ezekiel 29:16 אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם prep + sfx pers 3mp It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 33:31 אַחֲרֵ֥י prep They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
- Ezekiel 40:1 אַחַ֕ר prep In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.
- Ezekiel 41:15 אַחֲרֶ֧י/הָ prep + sfx pers 3fs He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back of it, and the galleries of it on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
- Ezekiel 44:10 אַחֲרֵ֖י prep But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 44:26 וְ/אַחֲרֵ֖י conj + prep After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.
- Ezekiel 46:12 אַחֲרֵ֥י prep When the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt offering or peace-offerings as a freewill-offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace-offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 8:1 אַחֲרֵ֛י prep In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
- Daniel 9:26 וְ/אַחֲרֵ֤י conj + prep After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
Hosea 7 verses
- Hosea 1:2 מֵֽ/אַחֲרֵ֖י prep + prep When Yahweh spoke at the first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery against from Yahweh."
- Hosea 2:5 אַחֲרֵ֤י prep For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, My oil and my drink.'
- Hosea 2:13 אַחֲרֵ֣י prep I will visit on her the days of the Baals, To which she burned incense, When she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, And went after her lovers, And forgot me," says Yahweh.
- Hosea 3:5 אַחַ֗ר prep Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
- Hosea 5:8 אַחֲרֶ֖י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms "Blow the cornet in Gibeah, And the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
- Hosea 5:11 אַחֲרֵי prep Ephraim is oppressed, He is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
- Hosea 11:10 אַחֲרֵ֧י prep They will walk after Yahweh, Who will roar like a lion; For he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
Joel 4 verses
- Joel 2:2 וְ/אַֽחֲרָי/ו֙ conj + prep + sfx pers 3ms A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, A great and strong people; There has never been the like, Neither will there be any more after them, Even to the years of many generations.
- Joel 2:3 וְ/אַחֲרָ֖י/ו וְ/אַֽחֲרָי/ו֙ conj + prep + sfx pers 3ms conj + prep + sfx pers 3ms A fire devours before them, And behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
- Joel 2:14 אַֽחֲרָי/ו֙ prep + sfx pers 3ms Who knows? He may turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind him, Even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
- Joel 2:28 אַֽחֲרֵי prep "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; And your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
Amos 3 verses
- Amos 2:4 אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have rejected Yahweh's law, And have not kept his statutes, And their lies have led them astray, After which their fathers walked;
- Amos 7:1 אַחַ֖ר prep Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest.
- Amos 7:15 מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֖י prep + prep and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
Zephaniah 1 verse
Zechariah 4 verses
- Zechariah 1:8 וְ/אַחֲרָי/ו֙ conj + prep + sfx pers 3ms "I had a vision in the night, and, behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
- Zechariah 2:8 אַחַ֣ר prep For thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
- Zechariah 6:6 אַֽחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם prep + sfx pers 3mp The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth toward the south country."
- Zechariah 7:14 אַֽחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ם prep + sfx pers 3mp "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, אחר (ʼachar) means “after.” Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. Spanning 664 verses in 31 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 5:4. Sharing its root, it stands alongside אחר, אחר and אחרון. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H310 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 664
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 664 distinct verses.
- 31 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 31 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #71
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 71 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 664 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 664 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 356 verses · 54%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 187 verses · 28%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 121 verses · 18%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: After 398×, Afterward 35×, Behind 35×
- American Standard Version†: After 346×, Afterward 32×, Behind 26×
- Berean Standard Bible†: After 153×, Behind 23×, After that 20×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: After 351×, After him 80×, After them 39×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H310 across 682† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 68 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 27 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H310 across 680† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 104 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H310 across 555† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 94 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 158 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H310 across 711† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 42 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
18 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 18 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. adv.
- a. of place, behind, twice Gn 22:13 (many MSS. Sam. 𝔊 𝔖 Ol Ew read אֶחָד v. Di) ψ 68:26. e.g. Genesis 22:13
- b. of time, afterwards Gn 10:18; 18:5; 24:55; 30:21 Ju 19:5 +; וְאַחַר in laws of P, as Lv 14:8, 19; 15:28; 22:7 Nu 5:26 al. e.g. Genesis 10:18
- 2. prep.
- a. of place, behind, after Ex 3:1; 11:5 2 K 11:6 Ct 2:9 Is 57:8: הָלַךְ אַחַר to go after, follow Gn 37:17 2 K 13:2; 23:3 Is 65:2 Ez 13:3 Jb 31:7; הָיָה אַחַר 1 S 12:14; מֵאַחַר from after †2 S 7:8 ψ 78:71 Is 59:13. e.g. Exodus 3:1
- b. of time, after Gn 9:28 Lv 25:15 al; אַחַר הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה after these things †Gn 15:1; 22:1; 39:7; 40:1 1 K 17:17; 21:1 Ezr 7:1 Est 2:1; 3:1; אַחַר כֵּן †Lv 14:36 Dt 21:13 1 S 10:5; אַחַר זֶה (late) 2 Ch 32:9: sq. inf. †Nu 6:19 Je 40:1 1 Ch 2:24 Jb 21:3; עַד אַחַר till after †Ne 13:19. e.g. Genesis 9:28
- c. Ne 5:15 strangely: Ew RV besides; but text prob. corrupt, v. BeRy. e.g. Nehemiah 5:15
- 3. †conj. אַחַר אֲשֶׁר after that Ez 40:1; and without אשׁר Lv 14:43 Je 41:16 Jb 42:7. As prep. & conj. the pl. אַחֲרֵי is much more freq., which in any case must be used before suffixes. e.g. Ezekiel 40:1
Plur
- only cstr. אַחֲרֵי with sf. אַחֲרַי, אַחֲרֶיךָ, etc.
- 1. subst. hinder part †2 S 2:23 בְּאַחֲרֵי הַחֲנִית with the hinder end of the spear. e.g. 2 Samuel 2:23
- 2. prep.
- a. of place, behind, after, Gn 18:10 וְהוּא אַחֲרָיו and it behind him Dt 11:30 Ju 5:14 1 S 14:13; 21:10; Ho 5:8 אַחֲרֶיךָ Behind thee! (sc. Look or The foe is); with a vb. as הִבִּיט to look Gn 19:17 1 S 24:9, הֵנִיעַ רֹאשׁ to shake the head 2 K 19:21 (= Is 37:22), especially verbs expressing or implying motion, as בָּא to enter in (v. Dr 2 S 20:14), בִּעֵר, דָּבֵק, דָּלַק, הָיָה, הָלַךְ, מִלֵּא, פָּנָה, רָדַף, הִשְׁלִיךְ (see these words). e.g. Genesis 18:10
- b. of time, after Gn 9:9 זַרְעֲכֶם אַחֲרֵיכֶם your seed after you; similarly 17:7–10, 19; 35:12; 48:4 Ex 28:43 Nu 25:13 all P (also Dt 1:8; 4:37; 10:15 1 S 24:22 2 S 7:12 ‖), & with בָּנָיו Gn 18:19 J (+ בֵּיתוֹ) Ex 29:29 P Lv 25:46 H Dt 4:40; 12:25, 28 Je 32:18, 39 1 Ch 28:8 Pr 20:7, דּוֹרוֹתֵינוּ Jos 22:27, בֵּיתוֹ Jb 21:21; Ex 10:14 Ju 10:3 etc.; with inf. Gn 5:4 אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ after his begetting Sheth, 13:14; 14:17; 18:12; 25:11 + often; אַחֲרֵי־כֵן afterwards Gn 6:4 (אחרי כן אשׁר = afterwards, when, cf. 2 Ch 35:20) 15:14; 23:19; 25:26; 32:21; 41:31; 45:15 etc.; ויהי אחרי־כן as a formula of transition chiefly in 2 S (2:1; 8:1 ‖ 10:1 ‖ 13:1; 21:18 ‖) cf. 1 S 24:6 Ju 16:4 2 K 6:24 2 Ch 20:1 24:4†; in late Heb. אַחֲרֵי זֹאת †Jb 42:16 Ezr 9:10 2 Ch 21:18 (+ כָּלִ־) 35:20 (do.); cf. Aramaic אַחֲרִי דְנָה Dn 2:29, 45, and בָּאתַר דְּנָה Dn 7:6, 7.—The local (metaph.) and temporal senses blend ψ 49:14 וְאַחֲרֵיהֶם בְּפִיהֶם יִרְצוּ & after them (i.e. following, imitating them) men applaud their speech, cf. Jb 21:33. e.g. Genesis 9:9
- 3. conj. אַחֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר after that, with the finite vb. Dt 24:4 Jos 7:8; 9:16; 23:1; 24:20 +; without אשׁר †Lv 25:48; 1 S 5:9†. (The most common constr. of אחרי is as a prep. with the inf. cstr.) Jos 2:7 אַהֲרֵי כַּאֲשֶׁר יָצְֽאוּ must be an error, either for אחרי אשׁר or for כאשׁר alone (notice אחריהם twice in the same verse); 2 S 24:10 read אַחֲרֵי סָפַר vid. Dr e.g. Deuteronomy 24:4
- 4. with other preps.:—
- a. מֵאַחֲרֵי57, 1 Ch 17:7 מִן־אַחֲרֵי (‖ 2 S 7:8 מֵאַחַר); (α) from behind Gn 19:26 2 S 2:23; from after i.e. from following after, usually with שׁוּב or סוּר 1 S 24:2 2 S 2:22, 26, 30; 11:15; often with God as obj. as Nu 14:43; 32:15 Dt 7:4 Jos 22:16, 18, 23, 29 1 S 15:11 +; with other vbs. of motion, as עָלָה 1 S 14:46 2 S 20:2, נַעֲלָה 2 S 2:27, לָקַח Am 7:15 1 Ch 17:7, זָנָה Ho 1:2; pregn. Is 30:21 thy ears shall hear a word מֵאַחֲרֶיךָ coming from behind thee, Je 9:21 (sc. נָפַל, see v a) 1 S 13:7 𝔊L We Dr חָֽרְדוּ מֵאַחֲרָיו. (β) denoting position (מן = off, on the side of; see מן) behind Ex 14:19(×2) Jos 8:2, 4, 14 1 K 10:19 Ne 4:7 (מֵאַחֲרֵי לְ) 2 Ch 13:13, b. (γ) of time (rare) †Dt 29:21 Ec 10:14; מֵאַחֲרֵי כֵן †2 S 3:28; 15:1; 2 Ch 32:23. e.g. 1 Chronicles 17:7
- b. †אֶל־אַחֲרֵי 2 S 5:23 2 K 9:18 סֹב אֶל־אַחֲרַי v 19 Zc 6:6. e.g. 2 Samuel 5:23
- c. †עַל־אַחֲרֵי Ez 41:5 beside, at the back of. e.g. Ezekiel 41:5
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. proposes subst. the hinder or following part (cf. the pl.)
I. adj. Pr 28:23 (si vera l.) אָדָם אַחֲרַי a man that turneth backwards (cf. Je 7:24) so Jos Ki De Ol p. 429 (doubtfully) Now Sta§ 301 b: according to Ew§ 200 a Hi an abnormal adv. = afterwards, Lag Pr conj. בְּאָרְחוֹ cf. 𝔊 ὁδούς.
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Derived from אחר (ʼâchar) (H309) — to delay.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָחַר
- 1. to be behind, v. Pi.
- 2. (euphem.) to cover (of camels). B. Bath. 93ᵃ; Shebu. 34ᵃ; Snh. 37ᵇ (Ms. M. B. Bath. l. c. יהיר). Tosef. B. Kam. III, 6 אוֹחֵיר.
- to tarry, hesitate; to set behind. Pes. IX, 9 אם אֵחַרְתִּי if I should be late. Y. Yoma III, 40ᶜ top א׳ בו מעשה the text orders a later action after it. Y. Ned. X, 42ᵃ; 42ᵇ א׳ בעמידה he tarried in standing, i.e. was the last to sit down. Gen. R. s. 81, beg. א׳ אדם את נדרו if one procrastinates the fulfillment of his vow; a. fr.
- to be postponed, be done late, be placed later. Y. Yoma III, 40ᶜ top בכלל מְאוּחָר היה would belong to things to be done later. Ib. יוּאֲחַר וכ׳ let it be done later than &c.—אין מוקדם ומאוחר בתורה there is no ‘earlier’ or ‘later’ (no chronological order) in the events or laws of the Scripture. Pes. 6ᵇ; a. e.; Y. Sot. VIII, 22ᵈ מוּאֲחַר.—Shebi. X, 5, a. fr. מאוחר (a document) postdated, opp. מוקדם antedated. B. Mets. V, 10 רבית מְאוּחֶרֶת postpaid interests.
אֲחַר
- 1. to be behind.
- 2. *to cover. Targ. Jer. V, 8 (of steeds, h. text מוזנים; some ed. ד for. ר).
- take ye a later meal (on Sabbaths).
- same. Targ. II Sam. XX, 5; a. fr.—[Targ. Prov. XXIII, 30 מַוְחֲרִין, מְוַוחֲרִין Part. Af. or Pa. of יחר = מוֹחר׳, מאחר׳.]
- , contr. אִתְחַר to be delayed. Targ. Y. I Deut. I, 2; cmp. however ib. v. 6, v. אֲרַח.
אַחַר
- v. foreg.), pl. constr. אַחֲרֵי after, behind. Gen. R. s. 44 wherever the Bible uses the preposition aḥaré סמוך, it means in connection with, אחר מופלג while aḥar means without connection (later on). Yoma 6ᵃ אחר א׳ after ‘after’, i.e. some time after the act, opp. חד אחר one ‘after’, immediately, v. אֶוְתִּיוֹס.—לְאַחֲרָיו, לְאַחֲרֶיהָ, מֵאַחֲרָיו, מֵאַחֲרֶיהָ after it, as concluding, opp. לפניה, לפניו introductory (prayer).—Ber. I, 4 אחת לא׳ one benediction after the Sh’ma. Ib. III, 4 לאחריו (prayer) after meal; a. fr.—כִּלְאַחַר יד as if doing a thing with the back of the hand, i.e. in a manner different from the usual way of doing it. Sabb. 153ᵇ; a. fr.—מֵאַחַר
- 1. (conj. followed by ש־ or ד־) after, since, whereas, because. Ḥull. 29ᵃ מא׳ ששנינו after it has once been stated in the Mishnah … why was it necessary (?) &c. Ib.ᵇ ומאחר דאפי׳ וכ׳ and since it is not even rabbinically unfit, why &c.; a. fr.
- 2. a legal term, meaḥar, the presumption of the truth of one’s statement, because he might have pleaded more profitably, if he had been inclined to lie. Y. Shebu. VI, 36ᵈ bot. אין אומרים בממון מא׳ מאחר וכ׳ in money matters we do not apply the principle of meaḥer, so as to say that because he might have said ‘thou hast not lent me anything’, he may say, ‘thou didst lend me, but I paid half of it’ (and his plea must be accepted without an oath); v. מִיגּוֹ s. v. גּוֹ.—אַחֲרֶיךָ thy successor. Y. Kil. IX, 32ᶜ top יהודה בני א׳ וכ׳ my son Judah shall succeed thee, none else (is worthy). Keth. 95ᵇ my property I bequeath to thee ואַחֲרַיִיךְ לפ׳ and after thee it shall go over to …—אַחַר כָּךְ (abbrev. אח"כ) afterwards, subsequently. Pes. X, 2; a. v. fr.
אַחֵר
- v. foreg. a. [back of,] another, the other, stranger. דבר א׳ (abbr. ד"א)
- 1. another thing, another explanation. Snh. IV, 5; a. v. fr. in Midr.
- 2. euphem. for idolatry, swine &c., v. דָּבָר.
- 3. Aḥer, [apostate,] byname of Elisha ben Abuyah. Ḥag. 14ᵇ; a. e.—Pl. אֲחֵרִים others; 1) freq. in Mishn. for anonymous authorities differing in opinion, א׳ אומרים, v. Hor. 13ᵇ אסיקו לר׳ מאיר א׳ R. Meïr is quoted under the word aḥerim.—2) freq. for strangers, gentiles. Snh. 52ᵇ אשת א׳ the wife of a non-Israelite. B. Mets. 111ᵇ; a. fr.—Fem. אֲחֶרֶת. Yoma I, 1 אשה א׳ a second (additional) wife; a. fr.—Snh. 104ᵃ זאת ועוד א׳ this and something besides (shall happen).
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Forms in the corpus
The 182 distinct written forms H310 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַחֲרֵ֣י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 1:4 | 71 |
| אַחֲרֵ֥י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 1:36 | 39 |
| אַחֲרֵ֖י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 6:14 | 37 |
| אַחַ֣ר | Preposition | Esther 3:1 | 18 |
| אַחֲרֵי֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 8:19 | 17 |
| אַחֲרֵי | Preposition | Genesis 41:31 | 16 |
| וְ/אַחֲרֵי | Preposition | Exodus 3:20 | 16 |
| אַחֲרָֽי/ו | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 3:22 | 16 |
| אַחֲרֵ֤י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 31:29 | 14 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי֙ | Preposition | Genesis 5:4 | 14 |
| אַחֲרָ֖י/ו | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 6:12 | 13 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶֽם | Preposition | Amos 2:4 | 12 |
| וְ/אַחַ֖ר | Adverb | Genesis 30:21 | 11 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי | Preposition | Genesis 6:4 | 11 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 11:30 | 11 |
| אַחֲרֵ֛י | Preposition | Daniel 8:1 | 11 |
| אַחֲרֵ֨י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 13:2 | 11 |
| אַחֲרָ֔י/ו | Preposition | Genesis 18:19 | 10 |
| מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֣י | Preposition | 1 Samuel 12:20 | 10 |
| אַחֲרֶ֑י/ךָ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 4:40 | 8 |
| אַחֲרָ֑י/ו | Preposition | Deuteronomy 4:37 | 8 |
| אַחַ֖ר | Preposition | Amos 7:1 | 8 |
| אַחַר֙ | Preposition | Esther 2:1 | 8 |
| וְ/אַחֲרֵ֣י | Preposition | 1 Chronicles 10:2 | 8 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֑ם | Preposition | Exodus 14:17 | 7 |
| אַחֲרַ֔/י | Preposition | Ezekiel 3:12 | 7 |
| אַחֲרָ֣י/ו | Preposition | Ezekiel 10:11 | 7 |
| וְ/אַחַ֣ר | Preposition | 1 Kings 19:12 | 6 |
| מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֖י | Preposition | Amos 7:15 | 6 |
| וְ/אַחַ֥ר | Adverb | Job 18:2 | 5 |
| אַ֠חֲרֵי | Preposition | 2 Samuel 19:30 | 5 |
| אַֽחֲרָי/ו֙ | Preposition | 2 Kings 2:24 | 5 |
| אַחֲרֵ֧י | Preposition | Hosea 11:10 | 5 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֗ם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 10:15 | 5 |
| אַחֲרֶ֔י/ךָ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 12:25 | 5 |
| אַחֲרָֽ/י | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 2:18 | 5 |
| אַחַ֥ר | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 12:2 | 5 |
| וְ/אַחֲרֵ֥י | Preposition | Ezekiel 20:30 | 5 |
| וְ/אַחֲרָ֖י/ו | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 9:3 | 5 |
| וְ/אַחַ֗ר | Adverb | Exodus 5:1 | 5 |
| מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֥י | Preposition | 2 Samuel 2:26 | 5 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי | Preposition | Exodus 11:1 | 4 |
| וְ/אַחַר֙ | Adverb | Genesis 38:30 | 4 |
| אַחֲרֵ֕י | Preposition | Jeremiah 3:17 | 4 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֖ם | Preposition | Exodus 14:28 | 4 |
| אַחֲרֶ֖י/ךָ | Preposition | Genesis 35:12 | 4 |
| אַחֲרָ֑/י | Preposition | 1 Kings 1:17 | 4 |
| וְ/אַחֲרָ֛י/ו | Preposition | 1 Chronicles 11:12 | 4 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ם | Preposition | Jeremiah 8:2 | 3 |
| אַֽחֲרֵי/הֶם֙ | Preposition | Jeremiah 9:16 | 3 |
| אַֽחֲרָ֔י/ו | Preposition | 1 Samuel 24:8 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 12:30 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֔ן | Preposition | Genesis 41:19 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֵי/הֶם֙ | Preposition | 1 Kings 9:21 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֶ֖י/הָ | Preposition | 2 Chronicles 23:14 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֶ֨י/ךָ֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 12:28 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֶֽי/הָ | Preposition | 2 Kings 4:30 | 3 |
| אַחֲרֶֽי/ךָ | Preposition | Genesis 17:7 | 3 |
| אַחֲרָ֗י/ו | Preposition | 1 Kings 1:35 | 3 |
| אַחֲרָ֛י/ו | Preposition | 1 Samuel 17:35 | 3 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 122 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Other BDB entries built from the same root as H310, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 623 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 664 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 5:4
- Exodus 3:1
- Leviticus 13:7
- Numbers 3:23
- Deuteronomy 1:4
- Joshua 1:1
- Judges 1:1
- Ruth 1:15
- 1 Samuel 1:9
- 2 Samuel 1:1
- 1 Kings 1:6
- 2 Kings 1:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
